Scientific research proves that the environment in which people work and live affects the mind, which in turn affects behavior, which in turn defines a person’s experience in that space. Depending on the outcome of that experience, it can influence a person’s quality of life...

An important part of my Integrative Space ™analysis of a medical facility, clinic or senior living complex is to discover where the staff can hang out. This is the place where employees can eat their lunch, have some coffee, hang up their coats, store their...

Living facilities that are constructed for people who are challenged or compromised in some way----by an illness, disability, surgery or aging----strive to assure that the occupants feel safe and empowered. This is particularly true for residents in an independent living facility who are still mobile...

Integrative space supports healing on more than the physical level, but also on the emotional, mental and spiritual levels as well. Creating a room with the focus of helping a patient feel safe and comfortable, like they might if they were home, is the aim...

When being treated in a hospital for injury or illness, we expect the utmost care, and trust the facility to bring us back to health.
In a recent article in the New York Times ( “Bad Hospital Design is Making Us Sicker”), Dr. Dhruv Khullar outlines...

Infection Control in Hospitals----Not the Only Component to Healing
Articles and studies speaking to the need to keep health-care associated infections (HAIs) to a minimum are being done continuously. Efforts to keep patients safe from bacteria that could come from other patients, staff, and visitors in...

From the viewpoint of Integrative Space, everything in the environment matters. Applying Feng Shui principles to even the seemingly least significant detail in a hospital or clinic setting can bring about the most significant positive response.
Currently, I am involved in a hospital remodeling project in...

The design of waiting rooms is a vital point of discussion in the healthcare world. Some think waiting rooms will become a thing of the past since the patient will be able to check in with ease via a kiosk and report directly to an...

Several months ago, I wrote an article called Healing Begins in the Waiting Room, addressing the issue of what patients are experiencing when they visit a medical facility and have to spend time in a waiting room----and how to make the wait more enjoyable using...

In 2003, I was contracted as an integrative spaces specialist to be part of a team whose focus was designing and building a new hospital. All facets of the project were analyzed from an integrative/Feng Shui perspective----color, roads, office placements, landscape, entry experience, patient rooms,...

“. . . .only architecture built up out of adjectives can nourish the soul.”
Christopher Day, Places of the Soul
This succinct phrase by eco-architect Christopher Day sums up the essence of what an integrative space entails. It doesn’t just entail a building but the experience behind...

Recently, I read an article about a hospital in St. Louis that has no hospital beds. Mercy Virtual Care Center staffs 330 people but has no patients who actually show up. As their title says----they’re virtual.
Mercy provides hospital care that is focused on helping people...